Originally Posted by
TomD77
Being a Georgia Tech alum, I'm OK with yellow jackets. Actually been stung by them a fair number of times but it's pretty mild. Got hit twice (same instance) by a white faced hornet and that was NOT MILD!!! It felt to me immediately like getting hit with 277 volts followed by intense pain.
That white-faced hornet must be the cousin our our bald-faced hornets. My wife got stung in the face by one once and looked like a batman character for two weeks (one side of her face was HUGE). We never found their nest, but she got in the habit of putting on her bee-keeping gear and killing the hornets that were killing her bees. I've never seen anyone enjoy killing an insect as much as she enjoyed swatting those bald-faced hornets.